Thanks Nick. Yeah I really do feel a sense of pride when I look deeper into their struggles. I know it's kind of unpopular these days to feel pride towards colonial ancestors, but honestly we do have a lot to thank them for.
Its Sunday afternoon in Dublin and I get to settle down with a cup of tea and enjoy your latest vid something I've started to look forward too Thanks so much!
Back in Ireland myself in a couple of weeks for the Westport Sea to Summit Adventure Race. So keen to be back in Ireland, and a little more adventure (even for this old fella)
You say you’re not a tradie. I’ve been a carpenter for over 60 years and your work is better than a lot of tradies I’ve seen over time. Always love watching your videos, thanks 👍
Hahaha I remember thinking the same thing. I’ve been an international project manager for the last 25 years since I left the service and seen trade skills plummet. I was watching this and laughing as I thought, ‘if only half my blokes these days could build that well’ 😂😂👍
The hut came up a treat mate and that chimney looks the goods. Certainly harsh times back in those days but i cant help but wonder along with those harsh and simple times comes a better lifestyle than we have in todays world.
Make one snip cut on a sheet of corrugated iron tin & stand on it... one foot on edge, other foot back & grab it it pull up & back .... yhe sheet will cut strip & you'll pull it backwards until its in two pieces exactly whwre you made the first snip cut at your desired measurement ... handy tip ... as you don't need to cut cut cut with tin snips all the way thru the sheet unless it is an angle cut, thats why you also have left & right cutting tin snips ... Hope it helps
It works, was gunna comment this. Spent years as a demolition labourer, and running a second hand yard. People used to spin out when I showed them. Also, don’t be shy when doing it, bit of anger and speed helps.
Yep tearing the sheets is a quick tip. Also the old tin scratchers use to have a native ginger plant and chilly plant going nearby. Add a bit of salt that was a commodity makes any stew half good 😉
@@TheBeardedBushranger 😂 it’s the internet brother, someone is going to say something about anything. I know I was thinking “the horse shoe is ass about” 😂👍🇦🇺
To our foreign friends this bloke is pretty much a genuine Australian. He chats to you like your in the room with him ("come and have a look at this" - like alright mate, will do). Takes his sweet time about stuff, no rush. Not fussed about fluff, but just what works. Really friendly good natured and doesn't flinch for a second when he remarks on shooting some Samba. Nothing gung-ho - just some grub. Loveable, down to earth fella you could spend all day with. Even took the time like a good Aussie rural to chat about the weather for 5 minutes. Subbed.
Every guy needs a shed. But a pioneer shed, with a built in fire place some hot grub and a night out enjoying it. I think you nailed it. Loved the little metal work campfire kit you had made for you, making that shed homely. I think if all us blokes could get away with it, that;s all about some of us would have for a home. But not too sure our better halves would agree 😂😂😂
haha mate I've often said I'd like to move further out rural and live in a little cabin, but my wife is pretty happy in our modern style home, being on the edge of the suburbs. I guess I'm pretty happy with the compromise of building a shack in the backyard haha
I grew up in not a lot much more than this and love taking my tent out bush, it’s the city born hubby/kids who cant cope without a soft mattress and an internet connection 😂.
@ Caribou is always good. Before moving to Alaska, my family lived in Idaho, and we would get Mule Deer pretty frequently, and which are usually pretty gamey. Caribou is generally pretty dry compared to beef, but they are usually not gamey, unless they’re in rut.
Hessian wheat bag on a couple of nails hanging over the outside of the window (s) and you have a period appropriate storm shutter. Pick apart the stitching on the wheat bag and you get a bigger piece for a door.
Yeah this is a great idea, I'm going to do that now for sure. As well as place stone on the inside of the fire place and a little wooden table and seat inside.
In the early 70s my parents were woolgrowers and our farm house was corrugated iron . External walls and roof was corrugated iron, no internal lining on exterior walls, only the framing. No interior walls. My father put hessian over the wall frames and coated it with a thick cement slurry a few times over. There was zero privacy. There was no running water in the house. The two tanks used to collect rain water from the roof had taps on them. If you wanted heated water, it was done over the wood stove and there was a wood fired copper for larger amounts of hot water and clothes washing, after which the clothing went through the wringer before being hung on the line. The toilet was about 20m from the house and a hole was regularly dug to empty the pan into. I have nothing but good memories of life then though I would expect my parents memories aren't quite as rosy.
Thanks for sharing that!. definantly sounds like quite an upbringing right there, and no doubt would have you apprecitive of many things later in life! I love how you said you have good memories of life like that as a kid! The first few years of my kids lives was spent living in a village in Africa where we didn't have running hot water and it was very basic living .. yet the kids seemed to have no issue! They adapt pretty well.
What a great video! It even kept me from going out into the beautiful autumn forest for half an hour this morning. Interesting, inspiring and wonderfully relaxing.
@@TheBeardedBushranger In the southern part of Germany. Today it's so foggy again that you can't see your hand in front of your eyes. And winter is already greeting us with temperatures of 3°C-5°C. This is the time of year when I miss Australia. Keep the great vids coming! Makes the looong evenings much more enjoyable 👍
Hey man another great vid, Have stayed in a lot of these over the years lots in Tassie highlands n back blocks nearly all had stacked/thrown stone on the inside of tin fireplace to give an overnight heat source as the fire goes out it still radiates heat.And now for the cumfy chair build, forked branch with crossbar shape of an A, hessian bag strapped over this and top of A leaning on tree or shack was all about what ol boys had on them! Was also the hessian bags streached over a couple spars to make the bed.
Thanks mate, some great tips there. And yes, I'm thinking there is lots of room for improvement on this hut that could be another video. I was thinking of that whole idea of a stone fire place inside the tin. Also the hessian bags can be beds, seats, windows etc.
thanks mate for not dressing up how australia came to be and acknowledging the suffering of the indigenous people it really does mean a lot, i myself am not indigenous but some of my family is and its just nice to hear the good and the bad put in the way you have. much respect mate!!!
Cheers mate. Yeah It's a sensitive topic whenever you talk about it and things are obviously heated in our culture. I know when I honour the pioneers I can sometimes get called a 'white supremacist' by some, and when I awknowledge some of the wrongs that were done to the indigenous I get called a 'woke lefty' by others. But personally I don't really come at it from a modern political culture war type of view. I simply want to study history and see what happened and learn from it. In the end History is niether black or white, it's quite messy. We can admire the good and awknowledge the bad.
The zinc on that sheeting is dangerous when burned. You need to burn off the zinc with a hot fire while you are a good distance away. Zinc fumes cause some pretty brutal effects
Thanks for that, I looked into and I know they changed to zincalume in Autralia in 1976 which is 46% zinc. NOt sure what it was before that, but these iron sheets mightbe dated back to 1950s and before. Otherwise I'll keep note of it.
The simplicity is almost overwhelming 😍 Many days and nights I’ve spent doing similar things with friends. Go out for a days adventure and end up spending several days with nothing but a cast iron pan and some spuds, onions, eggs and some poor critters. Great videos mate… back to basics is my style. Cheers 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺
Some canvas or recycled tarp would be good for the windows and a roll up cover for the opening. That's a fantastic build, I have a friend who used recycled materials to rebuild an older house up near the Murray river and it turned out an absolute treat. Its amazing the amount of quality building materials laying around. Come on people Patreon this guy its good value 😁
Thank you very much mate I appreciate it. I was thinking some old hessian sacks for windows. Like old hessian potato or maize flour sacks. Maybe use that for a door as well.
Just came across your channel, and i found it very enjoyable. Great to see Aussie content, and great to see it focus on the skills and lifestyle of our wonderful pioneers and characters. Looking forward to watching more.
Not worried the horse shoe! Mighty impressed with your work and concept. I'm from the USA and it hit me that the many hobos would have greatly appreciated a hut such as you built.Have subscribed and enjoyed your video. God bless and look forward to others!
Yeah the American Hobo culture is very similar to our swaggy culture. Men with a bedroll tied to their back, travelling the country by foot looking for work.
Mate. I love your videos and this one is just amazing along with your style and enthusiasm. You need to make that awesome shack into a home and make yourself some bush furniture and you're all set. Great stuff. Looking forward to your next. 👍. Cheers.
Good morning mate happy monday. Wickedly cool video loved the little susuki ute to those are tough little work hacks. Loved the shack and always love hearing history about Australia. Have an amazing week
@TheBeardedBushranger +you're many so welcome mate ,many months and kms lay ahead my friend, But it's going amazing. Currently waiting for new gear to arrive before I carry on. After the last 200+km I decided I needed a much smaller lighter pack an better tent lol, ditching alot of bulk I don't need to aye.. my next parts 500kms to my mums on the beautiful gisborne east coast
Well done my friend brings back my childhood of me and my best mates trying to build the ultimate fort to hang out in and just enjoy the weekend in our secret hideout and enjoying the simplicity of it all never quite got to that standard but did try i guess we never really grow up you also made the ultimate deer hunting hunting stand which is a bonus well done cheers 🍻
That's so good mate. I grew up making bush forts as well. Come to think about it I've been building like bush shacks all through out my life haha. But nothing to this level until now. It's always good fun for a camp out in.
Melted copple from iron bark to fill the holes. If you can find sticky red sap even better. Maybe A roof for your chimney to stop the rain? Great job bloke, , I am jealous, I could live there 😂.
Yup, I've had a bunch of great ideas from people in comments with things like patching up the roof with resign, roof on the chimney, stonefireplace on the inside of the tin, some hessian windows, a door .. log table and seats. I reckon I've got enough work there to make another vid. Thanks for watching.
Just put an extra battern where the holes are and roofing nails. Also tip when you cut those sheets if you not concerned about a exact straight cut is snip about 50cm on your line then put your foot on one side of the line and all your weight then pull up on the other side and it will rip like paper.
This is such a cool idea, Ive just purchased 5 acres and me and my little family are starting to build a little farm to live off grid, at least as much as possible. I might have to add bark shed to my list of things to build.
That sounds like a fantastic lifestyle you are going to live. I live on a farm as well with my family and my parents, and we try to grow some of our own food. It's a great way to live.
@TheBeardedBushranger Garn Cobber, the kids would love it! But you must keep the better half happy. Hope you get a good Samba, From a Red hunter. Take care
Good show again. Can't beat a bit of living history. On the shack. You need a couple of old hessian bags for the windows. Back in the day they would have been potato or wheat bag. They used hessian bags to make a basic bed as well. Rough small logs for the frame and the hessian bags stretched over it for mattress. Great meal as well. Actually had some venison back strap for tea tonight. Keep up your good work and I like the bit philosophising at the end.
This is a great bit of advice. I've heard of the hessian bags being used for the beds, but I like the idea of using it for windows (keeps the rain out while letting the breeze in) I might have to do that.
Great vid mate, what an awesome project. How's the tinnitus after all that banging? Dad will be stoked the BBQ setup got a plug. Perfect spot for it. Will have to come over for a pot roast, that looked amazing. I'll have mine charcoal though thanks, the way they used to be in your videos 🤣
haha someones not happy about the improvement in my cooking, bring back the burnt sausages that have fallen in the dirt ey! Yeah loving your old mans bbq settup. You need to come down for a beer in here one weekend night.
Love the video! 34 Tasmanian here. I wish I could do this mate! I had a shack up bush but the police burnt me out and harassed me. I've moved to the coast but still get harassed. Will be nice to have my own space again one day.
nice one Luke - as much as it would be a massive effort, I think a lot of us would like to see you put a stone chimney on a camping shack using all local materials
Oh I'd love to do that. I've thought about maybe doing stone on the inside of the fire place to help keep the heat off the iron sheets. Maybe a stone fire place, rough table and chairs, door and windows is next.
To improve the chimney double the iron, put a rock at the base middle and top as a spacer (wired in) and create a cavity between the two layers. Nice little hut.
i know where there is a 1890s mining shed still complete. it has a tin fireplace but its wired together with heavy gauge fence wire bits of an old stove where used to have a cleaning hole in the rear of the chimney. also the holes in the tin sheets where filled with molten lead
My grandfather spent allot of time in shakes like that in NZ. My old man too using those old traps to trap possums. The traps illegal now,i still got a couple but i do my best to keep eye out for them after i lost mine in a house fire. They used to dig a hole for the fire and use some stones to in the bottom of the fire on the sides to hold the heat, especially over winter . Its weard but they didn't fry allot of stuff like back in the bushman days especially when all you had was cast ion utensils. Even if you had a pack horse . You wouldn't carry a frying pan, and camp oven, and a tea pot , you'd carry one thing and what were you going to feed the most people with and what could you put lid on to protect from insects a camp over , so they did allot of stews
They made the corrugation. They rolled them by hand to shape the flat sheets. Was first for building Ramparts frilled fill rubble. Fast bult fortifications
Australian Tree Tar.. or use gum Tree sap. to cover them holes. place some slate stones on the outside.. between the tin and the wooden frame.. or place them inside the tin.. to keep some of that heat in the shack.
I'm building my little tin shack at the moment... A 2001 Mercedes MB100 Van. I need to fly the coup to save my sanity! Going to have a 12 volt system and everything.
Cool little hut, perfect for a bushranger such as yourself 😅, lovely looking property you have there to Luke, looks really beautiful and great video as usual mate 👍
Yeah someone else mentioned this and it's a bloody great tip. I'd like to give it a go cause my hands were aching after cutting all that tin with those old tin snips.
Modern corrugated tin sheets are like foil. The old school stuff much more hardy, heavy & tough. The fumes off the galvanising isn't best for the lungs.
Awesome work mate. And I like the fire place and the billy hanger. I have found a few old hunting bivy’s in the bush in New Zealand. Many were made out of polythene . A lot of the old Forest Service huts were tin 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
Thanks David. Yeah here in our high country you can come accross the ruins of an old shanty as well. I remember listening to a podcast called dear wars, all about the New Zealand deer culling industry and how those early fellas would live out in these little shanties for months at a time.
@@TheBeardedBushranger yeah mate. Since WWII we have had periods of fascinating economics and history associated with deer culling or harvesting of many descriptions. My mates dad was a deer culler and he (my mate) has his own private pest destruction contracting hunting firm - they hunt deer, pigs, hares, goats, wallaby’s.
If you watched the victorian gold hunters. The old fellow Glenn would have told you. The back of the chimney comes off. It was because to cookin summer it was taken away to stop heating up the cabin.
That is actually a great idea. The back of this chimney could come off pretty easily actually so that's one to think about. I love learning new things like this from folks like you in comment section. Thanks for that.
@TheBeardedBushranger you need a roof cap on your chimney to stop the rain. It may also be a half angled sheet part way up the chimney. From where were you cooking and up at an angle up in the middle. Like how chimneys were made in the old days. It is to warm up the chimneys to draw up the smoke. Also, sometimes, the chimneys had a design to smoke meat.
@@RustyCandyAdventures Cool mate thanks for that. That is a good idea, I'll look more into how they did that and might add it to the chimney. Obviously I've seen the chimneys that narrow up towards the end, but that makes sense for these more open rectangle shaped ones.
I feel proud to be an aussie living in the country. Even with the billion flies, the high 40'c weather, the dust, lizards, spiders and snakes. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Its the best country in the world with the best people. I can only imagine the conditions the Pioneers used to live in. I couldn't deal with no fly spray or air conditioner and an outside dunny... Aussie Aussie Aussie.
Yeah it would of been something else back in the day in those brutal summers. Also, don't know what it is, but here in Vicco in the last week the flys have exploded. Can't go outside without a hundred of them crawling up your nose.
When I was a kid in the 60's myself and my mates found an immaculate bush hut near Toowoomba. Built at the base of a small cliff as there was a spring there. No door but built like the old public toilet shape. All built with corro iron ("borrowed" I bet) and baling wire. No nails. Even the bed was woven baling wire and so comfortable with all wire ends twisted away. Great fireplace, yes in iron. The earth floor was nearly polished and packed hard. No rubbish. We guessed it was a swaggy's place when he trudged through the area. I'm sure the area now would be a housing estate..... Edit to say that horse shoe needs to be hung upside down for the good luck to fall into. Never seen an old place with the shoe pointing down.
That is a great story. Imagine what that little shack could share if it could talk. I've found a few humpys in the bush as well over the years ... nothing official that I could find history on, so surely a hideout for tramp / hobo I'm sure. They are still around here and there.
Mate, my hand was aching after doing all those cuts haha. But I've been told you can do one cut and simply tear the sheets in a straight line (though I've never tried it myself)
nice luke. also don't forget about the irreversible cost to the land plants and animals . unfortunately so much was lost and still is being lost due to ignorance and greed . I like how your vids give us food for thought and take us on a nice little trip into the past . all the best mate see ya on ya next vid
Yeah for sure. As the old accounts talk about, the bush looked like a very different place to what we would see now. I always get dissapointed seeing all the blackberries along rivers in the high country. And coming back from the ovens river just last week, some spots were overgrown with scotch thistle.
@@TheBeardedBushranger yes weeds are a very big and easy to see problem . I was more relating towards the over logging, grazing , farming and mining of the country. Accountable for the loss of countless species of plants and animals soil erosion and pollution and unfortunately its still going on due to greed and ignorance . they are still logging old growth forest, the most rarest and sensitive places in australia to cause extinction . . you probably know all this ofc . sorry about the rant . Much we have learnt from the past , much we have learnt we ignore due to short term greed . the pioneers and squatters survived and were hearty people . they had no choice but they also took way more than they contributed in my opinion and continue to do so . logging and mining especially
@BushKayakersCampingAustralia i understand your frustration and concern on many of the environmental issues. Though I don't think I agree with the statement 'they took far more then they contributed' .. because how do you even measure that? All the tiny details that make up a society today and trace thier roots to the different ways the country was built up. I mean now we are going into philosophical grounds of should us humans even be here, or would it be better to have no society in Australia at all. I'm of the opinion, with all its flaws and problems that need fixing, what has been created is significant. But that's a whole nother discussion 😆
@@TheBeardedBushranger fair enough it cant be measured although it was pretty much unbridled greed that was the driving force as to how the land was exploited without concern for the people plants and animals that were already here . We could have gotten to where we are today without destroying and selfishly exploiting so much . so much was lost . we didnt need to loose so much overgrazing caused so much damage so much loss . They would just move the cattle or sheep on in a trail for destruction and erosion . mining i the creeks and rivers . using arsenic to separate gold pour it down the rivers . leaving another trail od unconscionable trail of destruction . and for what ? . for greed . They have a lot to answer for and a few things to be proud of is my opinion . it cant be measured but you can see it everywhere the good and the bad
Thanks mate, I'm actually pretty keen to start dabbling in some gold panning myself. I've been researching into and where to go. I'll watch some of your vids!
Wondering how much heat would be lost straight up the crude chimney. I once had a large open fire in an old house i owned. Big fire little heat as most went straight up. Then an old farmer said to put any thick metal plates at the back of the fire place. He suggested old plow discs. When they got hot they radiated the heat outward.
My Pop and Grandma lived in one of these tin huts when they first emigrated to Australia from England in 1926, as soldier settlers. They had an upper middle class life in the Old Country and were told that they would have a fully set up dairy farm. What they got was 200 acres of Jarrah forest, a tin hut and a water tank with no water in it! Some of their fellow settlers killed themselves, Pop turned to the grog to drown his sorrows. They had seven children and Grandma somehow kept them all alive, with no money (Pop always drank his pay packets). He died of cirrhosis of the liver, Grandma got dementia after this and died a few years later. She died when I was five years old and this would have been in about 1979. So that's some tin hut history, from my own family. BTW, Pop and Grandma now have hundreds of descendants and when they all have a family get-together, they need to hire the local RSL Hall!
Yeah, I mean there is no sugar coating it. It was a hard rough life. Sometimes the bush life can be romanticised, but the realities can often be harsh. But as you said, they have hundreds of descendants! Really interesting stuff. Thanks for watching.
Im guessing the corrugated tin merchants probably made more of a fortune than the gold diggers. Sure & steady wins the day! Good show Luke. Don't let the old shack go to waste ... 🐔 chickens!!🥚🍗 😉
I wouldn't be surprised at that. I've read elsewhere that men who built up different trades and services to serve the gold digging towns often made more money then those looking for gold.
Your wise words regarding gratitude to our colonial ancestors are not lost on me, my dear man. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Nick. Yeah I really do feel a sense of pride when I look deeper into their struggles. I know it's kind of unpopular these days to feel pride towards colonial ancestors, but honestly we do have a lot to thank them for.
@@TheBeardedBushrangerI think you had a good balance of covering the hardships faced by all.
Its Sunday afternoon in Dublin and I get to settle down with a cup of tea and enjoy your latest vid something I've started to look forward too Thanks so much!
Fantastic mate, great to hear someone from dublin is watching .. we have a lot of history in this country with the Irish!
Back in Ireland myself in a couple of weeks for the Westport Sea to Summit Adventure Race. So keen to be back in Ireland, and a little more adventure (even for this old fella)
You say you’re not a tradie. I’ve been a carpenter for over 60 years and your work is better than a lot of tradies I’ve seen over time.
Always love watching your videos, thanks 👍
🤣 Mate I don't believe that.
Thanks for watching!!
Ahahaha good comment David! It is possible to see things done by "pros" with less thought put in than what this bearded man put in.
Hahaha I remember thinking the same thing. I’ve been an international project manager for the last 25 years since I left the service and seen trade skills plummet. I was watching this and laughing as I thought, ‘if only half my blokes these days could build that well’ 😂😂👍
I was a plasterer
Years ago and have covered some shonky work
The hut came up a treat mate and that chimney looks the goods. Certainly harsh times back in those days but i cant help but wonder along with those harsh and simple times comes a better lifestyle than we have in todays world.
Yeah I know what you mean. Aspects of that life I wish we could go back and re live .. other parts I'm pretty hapy to be living in modern times 😂
Make one snip cut on a sheet of corrugated iron tin & stand on it... one foot on edge, other foot back & grab it it pull up & back .... yhe sheet will cut strip & you'll pull it backwards until its in two pieces exactly whwre you made the first snip cut at your desired measurement ... handy tip ... as you don't need to cut cut cut with tin snips all the way thru the sheet unless it is an angle cut, thats why you also have left & right cutting tin snips ...
Hope it helps
Wish I had known this tip before, my hand was bloody aching after doing all that cutting.
Thanks for the tip, I'll be remembering this one.
Thats a grouse tip
It works, was gunna comment this.
Spent years as a demolition labourer, and running a second hand yard. People used to spin out when I showed them.
Also, don’t be shy when doing it, bit of anger and speed helps.
Yep tearing the sheets is a quick tip.
Also the old tin scratchers use to have a native ginger plant and chilly plant going nearby. Add a bit of salt that was a commodity makes any stew half good 😉
I only use this method for scrap. Do it if ur a hack and don’t take any pride in what you do
brother youre a legend! as a fellow croatian immigrant in his early 30s i love this shit! bloody lucky to be in this beautiful country
Awesome mate, thanks heaps for watching.
@ also subbed keep up the awesome work!
Horse shoe upside down mate, if it’s up the other way it stops the luck falling out, good vid 👍
@@RandomAussie2033 i was actually anticipating these comments after going back through the footage and realising 😆
@@TheBeardedBushranger 😂 it’s the internet brother, someone is going to say something about anything.
I know I was thinking “the horse shoe is ass about” 😂👍🇦🇺
Am bit late haha
@@Aaron_Hanson 😂 Maybe I did it on purpose to create controversy so everyone would comment about it and boost the video in the algorythm.
@@TheBeardedBushranger Or your lettin the good luck run free !
Thanks Luke. You surpassed yourself mate!
My opinion, your best ever video. Lost for words really. Thank you!
Oh cheers, I really apreciate that, glad you enjoyed the video.
Love your work, what a great final speech. Much respect.
Thanks for that mate, I really do feel more and more appreciation for their efforts the more I learn about it.
To our foreign friends this bloke is pretty much a genuine Australian. He chats to you like your in the room with him ("come and have a look at this" - like alright mate, will do). Takes his sweet time about stuff, no rush. Not fussed about fluff, but just what works. Really friendly good natured and doesn't flinch for a second when he remarks on shooting some Samba. Nothing gung-ho - just some grub. Loveable, down to earth fella you could spend all day with. Even took the time like a good Aussie rural to chat about the weather for 5 minutes. Subbed.
Cheers mate, I appreciate the comment! Thanks heaps for watching and plenty more videos to come
Every guy needs a shed. But a pioneer shed, with a built in fire place some hot grub and a night out enjoying it. I think you nailed it.
Loved the little metal work campfire kit you had made for you, making that shed homely.
I think if all us blokes could get away with it, that;s all about some of us would have for a home. But not too sure our better halves would agree
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haha mate I've often said I'd like to move further out rural and live in a little cabin, but my wife is pretty happy in our modern style home, being on the edge of the suburbs.
I guess I'm pretty happy with the compromise of building a shack in the backyard haha
@@TheBeardedBushranger
Therein is the world for a long and happy marriage lad - ‘compromise’ 👍
That'd do me to live in.
As long as I had a shed 8 times the size 😂
I grew up in not a lot much more than this and love taking my tent out bush, it’s the city born hubby/kids who cant cope without a soft mattress and an internet connection 😂.
This made me envious, so I trudged through the snow to the garage, to pull out a caribou roast that I’m presently cooking in a pot on my wood stove!
That sounds great mate! Can't say I've had caribou before. what temps are you currently getting at this time of the year?
@@TheBeardedBushranger It was 14 Fahrenheit this morning with 8 inches of powder snow-its here to stay for winter now!
that sounds killer brother how was the caribou?
@ Caribou is always good. Before moving to Alaska, my family lived in Idaho, and we would get Mule Deer pretty frequently, and which are usually pretty gamey. Caribou is generally pretty dry compared to beef, but they are usually not gamey, unless they’re in rut.
Hessian wheat bag on a couple of nails hanging over the outside of the window (s) and you have a period appropriate storm shutter. Pick apart the stitching on the wheat bag and you get a bigger piece for a door.
Yeah this is a great idea, I'm going to do that now for sure. As well as place stone on the inside of the fire place and a little wooden table and seat inside.
You're an absolute fucking weapon mate, don't ever stop what ya doing. True Aussie icon ♥️♥️
Cheers mate!
Galvanised sheds/huts are part of Australian history. Hot in summer and cold in winter lol😂 Good on ya Luke love the video.
haha aint that the truth! Thanks for watching.
In the early 70s my parents were woolgrowers and our farm house was corrugated iron . External walls and roof was corrugated iron, no internal lining on exterior walls, only the framing. No interior walls. My father put hessian over the wall frames and coated it with a thick cement slurry a few times over. There was zero privacy. There was no running water in the house. The two tanks used to collect rain water from the roof had taps on them. If you wanted heated water, it was done over the wood stove and there was a wood fired copper for larger amounts of hot water and clothes washing, after which the clothing went through the wringer before being hung on the line. The toilet was about 20m from the house and a hole was regularly dug to empty the pan into. I have nothing but good memories of life then though I would expect my parents memories aren't quite as rosy.
Thanks for sharing that!. definantly sounds like quite an upbringing right there, and no doubt would have you apprecitive of many things later in life! I love how you said you have good memories of life like that as a kid! The first few years of my kids lives was spent living in a village in Africa where we didn't have running hot water and it was very basic living .. yet the kids seemed to have no issue! They adapt pretty well.
What a great video! It even kept me from going out into the beautiful autumn forest for half an hour this morning. Interesting, inspiring and wonderfully relaxing.
Thanks for watching! What part of the northern hemisphere are you then, if you are experiencing autumn? We are in spring right now
@@TheBeardedBushranger In the southern part of Germany. Today it's so foggy again that you can't see your hand in front of your eyes. And winter is already greeting us with temperatures of 3°C-5°C. This is the time of year when I miss Australia. Keep the great vids coming! Makes the looong evenings much more enjoyable 👍
Thanks for remembering the cost to all the peoples that where there and came to help out
Yeah it's important to do.
Hey man another great vid, Have stayed in a lot of these over the years lots in Tassie highlands n back blocks nearly all had stacked/thrown stone on the inside of tin fireplace to give an overnight heat source as the fire goes out it still radiates heat.And now for the cumfy chair build, forked branch with crossbar shape of an A, hessian bag strapped over this and top of A leaning on tree or shack was all about what ol boys had on them! Was also the hessian bags streached over a couple spars to make the bed.
Thanks mate, some great tips there.
And yes, I'm thinking there is lots of room for improvement on this hut that could be another video. I was thinking of that whole idea of a stone fire place inside the tin. Also the hessian bags can be beds, seats, windows etc.
thanks mate for not dressing up how australia came to be and acknowledging the suffering of the indigenous people it really does mean a lot, i myself am not indigenous but some of my family is and its just nice to hear the good and the bad put in the way you have. much respect mate!!!
Cheers mate. Yeah It's a sensitive topic whenever you talk about it and things are obviously heated in our culture. I know when I honour the pioneers I can sometimes get called a 'white supremacist' by some, and when I awknowledge some of the wrongs that were done to the indigenous I get called a 'woke lefty' by others.
But personally I don't really come at it from a modern political culture war type of view. I simply want to study history and see what happened and learn from it.
In the end History is niether black or white, it's quite messy. We can admire the good and awknowledge the bad.
Great vid ! Enough said about the horse shoe love your reminiscence of the past so true bless you
Thanks for that!
The zinc on that sheeting is dangerous when burned. You need to burn off the zinc with a hot fire while you are a good distance away. Zinc fumes cause some pretty brutal effects
Thanks for that, I looked into and I know they changed to zincalume in Autralia in 1976 which is 46% zinc. NOt sure what it was before that, but these iron sheets mightbe dated back to 1950s and before. Otherwise I'll keep note of it.
The simplicity is almost overwhelming 😍
Many days and nights I’ve spent doing similar things with friends. Go out for a days adventure and end up spending several days with nothing but a cast iron pan and some spuds, onions, eggs and some poor critters.
Great videos mate… back to basics is my style.
Cheers 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺
That sounds great mate, best way to do it I say!
Some canvas or recycled tarp would be good for the windows and a roll up cover for the opening. That's a fantastic build, I have a friend who used recycled materials to rebuild an older house up near the Murray river and it turned out an absolute treat. Its amazing the amount of quality building materials laying around.
Come on people Patreon this guy its good value
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Thank you very much mate I appreciate it.
I was thinking some old hessian sacks for windows. Like old hessian potato or maize flour sacks. Maybe use that for a door as well.
Or build a shutter, keep the wind and rain out.
Just came across your channel, and i found it very enjoyable. Great to see Aussie content, and great to see it focus on the skills and lifestyle of our wonderful pioneers and characters. Looking forward to watching more.
Glad you enjoyed the video and the theme of the channel. Plenty more videos to come. Thanks for watching.
Not worried the horse shoe! Mighty impressed with your work and concept. I'm from the USA and it hit me that the many hobos would have greatly appreciated a hut such as you built.Have subscribed and enjoyed your video. God bless and look forward to others!
Yeah the American Hobo culture is very similar to our swaggy culture. Men with a bedroll tied to their back, travelling the country by foot looking for work.
Great vid! So enjoyable to 'tag along' as you build, share thoughtful observations, and connect history to the present 🏕️🛠️🥘🔥
Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
Epic, another great vid. You are nailing this concept Luke.
Cheers Eamon! I appreciate it.
Mate. I love your videos and this one is just amazing along with your style and enthusiasm. You need to make that awesome shack into a home and make yourself some bush furniture and you're all set. Great stuff. Looking forward to your next. 👍. Cheers.
Thanks for that mate, appreciate it. I'm thinking of some windows and a door to complete the settup!
that roast looked like heaven i could almost taste it!! top job on the hut
Best deer roast I've ever had haha
Good morning mate happy monday.
Wickedly cool video loved the little susuki ute to those are tough little work hacks.
Loved the shack and always love hearing history about Australia.
Have an amazing week
Thanks heaps mate, I appreciate it. Hows the walk going? Still on it or finished up?
@TheBeardedBushranger +you're many so welcome mate
,many months and kms lay ahead my friend,
But it's going amazing. Currently waiting for new gear to arrive before I carry on.
After the last 200+km I decided I needed a much smaller lighter pack an better tent lol, ditching alot of bulk I don't need to aye..
my next parts 500kms to my mums on the beautiful gisborne east coast
The production quality on this video is unreal. Really liked the drone shot! Such a fantastic country we live in. Cheers cobba
Cheers mate thanks for watching. It's a bloody beaut country we live in.
Well done my friend brings back my childhood of me and my best mates trying to build the ultimate fort to hang out in and just enjoy the weekend in our secret hideout and enjoying the simplicity of it all never quite got to that standard but did try i guess we never really grow up you also made the ultimate deer hunting hunting stand which is a bonus well done cheers 🍻
That's so good mate. I grew up making bush forts as well. Come to think about it I've been building like bush shacks all through out my life haha. But nothing to this level until now. It's always good fun for a camp out in.
Another great video mate. Keep on doing what you’re doing.
For sure mate!
Awesome vid man, so well put together! You've gained another subscriber for life.
Awesome mate, thanks heaps for watching and subscribing. Plenty more vids to come.
Danke!
Wow I really appreciate that. Thank you so much for watching and contributing towards the channel!
Melted copple from iron bark to fill the holes. If you can find sticky red sap even better.
Maybe A roof for your chimney to stop the rain?
Great job bloke, , I am jealous, I could live there 😂.
Yup, I've had a bunch of great ideas from people in comments with things like patching up the roof with resign, roof on the chimney, stonefireplace on the inside of the tin, some hessian windows, a door .. log table and seats.
I reckon I've got enough work there to make another vid.
Thanks for watching.
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Just put an extra battern where the holes are and roofing nails.
Also tip when you cut those sheets if you not concerned about a exact straight cut is snip about 50cm on your line then put your foot on one side of the line and all your weight then pull up on the other side and it will rip like paper.
Top camp and will make a great hide 👌🏽.
Thanks for video. I like !!! 👍👍
Great video and a great bit of advice at the end. Cheers.
Thanks for watching!
This is such a cool idea, Ive just purchased 5 acres and me and my little family are starting to build a little farm to live off grid, at least as much as possible.
I might have to add bark shed to my list of things to build.
That sounds like a fantastic lifestyle you are going to live. I live on a farm as well with my family and my parents, and we try to grow some of our own food. It's a great way to live.
You are right. We have to put our past differences aside and learn to work together as a nation if we want to move ahead. good vid mate.
Thanks for watching mate. I agree totally.
You can cover the holes with small rags soaked in oil paint
Great idea. thanks for that.
Awesome as usual mate. 👍🐕🤠
Thanks mate.
You got a new subscriber brother thank you for being so respectful
Awesome mate, thanks for subscribing.
Oh one more, that's a handy little airbnb there haha
haha deck it out inside and I can charge $30 a night
First time I seen it, entertaining and informative 👍
@@timdingoking7902 thanks for watching
Brilliant little shack mate. Great video too. Cant wait to see more! ❤
Thanks for watching.
living my dream, mate. thanks for the video
Thanks for watching.
Awsome vid mate,you have inspired me, Ive lived in some rough sheds,but I could live in that ,ripper fireplace.
Yeah I'd be happy to live in this ... not sure the misses and kids would appreciate it though 😄 Thanks for watching.
@TheBeardedBushranger Garn Cobber, the kids would love it! But you must keep the better half happy. Hope you get a good Samba, From a Red hunter. Take care
Good show again.
Can't beat a bit of living history.
On the shack.
You need a couple of old hessian bags for the windows. Back in the day they would have been potato or wheat bag. They used hessian bags to make a basic bed as well. Rough small logs for the frame and the hessian bags stretched over it for mattress.
Great meal as well. Actually had some venison back strap for tea tonight.
Keep up your good work and I like the bit philosophising at the end.
This is a great bit of advice. I've heard of the hessian bags being used for the beds, but I like the idea of using it for windows (keeps the rain out while letting the breeze in) I might have to do that.
Love this. Well done
Thanks for watching mate.
What a great little hut Luke. Loved that chimney too. Awesome job!
Thanks for watching!
To create an oven effect when camping, I used to put one pot inside another. The smaller pot would be propped up to allow airflow around all sides
This is a great idea, I might try this on a camp I'm going to do this week. Thanks for that.
Hey mate awesome video. I know it’s been mentioned and it’s only a wise tail but never hang a horse shoe upside down it lets the good luck flow out.
Got ya mate, cheers! I'll stop living dangerously and turn that thing around 😂
**old wives tale
Excellent, excellent video Luke-I’d be tempted to just move in, if I had a hut like that here!
Great vid mate, what an awesome project. How's the tinnitus after all that banging? Dad will be stoked the BBQ setup got a plug. Perfect spot for it. Will have to come over for a pot roast, that looked amazing. I'll have mine charcoal though thanks, the way they used to be in your videos 🤣
haha someones not happy about the improvement in my cooking, bring back the burnt sausages that have fallen in the dirt ey!
Yeah loving your old mans bbq settup. You need to come down for a beer in here one weekend night.
Great vid Luke. Looking forward to seeing the continuing evolution of the hut bro.
Thanks mate. I will be heading out a few weeks time with the gear you sent me and do a run through of it as well!
@@TheBeardedBushranger Awesome Luke. I hope it does you well.
Man...my dump is made of post and rails...
Happy 4u to drop by gulgong 🎉🎉🎉
Nice work and good show.
thanks for that!
Great video Luke Cheers.
Thanks for watching.
Great wrap up mate. Really enjoyed your video, keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing you shoot a Sambre out the window haha
Cheers mate, yeah I really gotta get into the hunting side of things.
Amazing video thank you for sharing 😃
Thanks for watching!
Another brilliant video mate. Thanks for your efforts 😊
Thanks for watching.
Love the video! 34 Tasmanian here. I wish I could do this mate! I had a shack up bush but the police burnt me out and harassed me. I've moved to the coast but still get harassed. Will be nice to have my own space again one day.
Oh that sucks mate. Yeah it's harder and harder to be a squater out bush these days unless you have permission on private property.
nice one Luke - as much as it would be a massive effort, I think a lot of us would like to see you put a stone chimney on a camping shack using all local materials
Oh I'd love to do that. I've thought about maybe doing stone on the inside of the fire place to help keep the heat off the iron sheets.
Maybe a stone fire place, rough table and chairs, door and windows is next.
To improve the chimney double the iron, put a rock at the base middle and top as a spacer (wired in) and create a cavity between the two layers. Nice little hut.
Cheers mate, yeah I'm going to work on the chimney and make it rain proof as well as a stone fire place on the inside.
@ In that case I’d better subscribe, wouldn’t want to miss seeing that. Cheers
❤ it thanks for sharing your life’s journey
What a great little hut Luke all you need now is a bush cot and a small table and chair like the old timers had and you've got the Bushranger Hilton.
Love the idea of this. I think I might put a door and windows on it at some point as well.
i know where there is a 1890s mining shed still complete. it has a tin fireplace but its wired together with heavy gauge fence wire bits of an old stove where used to have a cleaning hole in the rear of the chimney. also the holes in the tin sheets where filled with molten lead
Sounds like a good find.
Cool video luke.cheers from California.
Thanks for watching.
Great vid mate 🐝
Love the stockman!
Yeah great jacket
Ha ha crackin shack mate. Great work
Cheers mate thanks for watching.
Once again... great vid. Thank you. 🤘😉
Cheers mate.
My grandfather spent allot of time in shakes like that in NZ. My old man too using those old traps to trap possums. The traps illegal now,i still got a couple but i do my best to keep eye out for them after i lost mine in a house fire.
They used to dig a hole for the fire and use some stones to in the bottom of the fire on the sides to hold the heat, especially over winter . Its weard but they didn't fry allot of stuff like back in the bushman days especially when all you had was cast ion utensils. Even if you had a pack horse . You wouldn't carry a frying pan, and camp oven, and a tea pot , you'd carry one thing and what were you going to feed the most people with and what could you put lid on to protect from insects a camp over , so they did allot of stews
That's a great bit of history there. Yeah lots of mutton or wallaby stew I hear back in the day!
They made the corrugation. They rolled them by hand to shape the flat sheets. Was first for building Ramparts frilled fill rubble. Fast bult fortifications
Australian Tree Tar.. or use gum Tree sap. to cover them holes. place some slate stones on the outside.. between the tin and the wooden frame.. or place them inside the tin.. to keep some of that heat in the shack.
Great idea mate, sounds good. I will definantly be building a stone fire place on the inside of the tin.
I'm building my little tin shack at the moment... A 2001 Mercedes MB100 Van. I need to fly the coup to save my sanity! Going to have a 12 volt system and everything.
haha that's great! A tin shack on wheels!
Very cool vid Luke...once again! 👍
Thanks mate! Thanks for watching.
Great video and page mate.
Thanks mate.
loving your videos
Thanks mate!
Cool little hut, perfect for a bushranger such as yourself 😅, lovely looking property you have there to Luke, looks really beautiful and great video as usual mate 👍
Thanks for that! Yeah I can stay here when I'm hiding from the law 😂
Yep, you are good to go 👍😄
Good stuff!
Thanks mate.
I could live there, and the roast looks Awesome.
I wouldn't mind it all .. then I remember I have a wife and kids who wouldn't be keen haha
@TheBeardedBushranger I'm in the same boat, mine wouldn't be pleased either.
Loved the vid mate Australia looks gorgeous you not worried about the creepy crawlies thought everything could potentially eat you in tjr land of oz
In summer they get a little bit annoying. Last camp I did I was dodging brown snakes and huntsmen spiders
@TheBeardedBushranger worse we got to deal eith in scotland is the midges be safe mate
With corrugated iron just cut the edge , put your foot on the keep side and pull up. It will tear in a fairly straight line . Thats how they did it .
Yeah someone else mentioned this and it's a bloody great tip. I'd like to give it a go cause my hands were aching after cutting all that tin with those old tin snips.
Modern corrugated tin sheets are like foil. The old school stuff much more hardy, heavy & tough. The fumes off the galvanising isn't best for the lungs.
@@BelleBlu yeah this stuff actually dates back most likly to the 1950s
Awesome work mate. And I like the fire place and the billy hanger. I have found a few old hunting bivy’s in the bush in New Zealand. Many were made out of polythene . A lot of the old Forest Service huts were tin 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
Thanks David. Yeah here in our high country you can come accross the ruins of an old shanty as well. I remember listening to a podcast called dear wars, all about the New Zealand deer culling industry and how those early fellas would live out in these little shanties for months at a time.
@@TheBeardedBushranger yeah mate. Since WWII we have had periods of fascinating economics and history associated with deer culling or harvesting of many descriptions. My mates dad was a deer culler and he (my mate) has his own private pest destruction contracting hunting firm - they hunt deer, pigs, hares, goats, wallaby’s.
If you watched the victorian gold hunters. The old fellow Glenn would have told you. The back of the chimney comes off. It was because to cookin summer it was taken away to stop heating up the cabin.
That is actually a great idea. The back of this chimney could come off pretty easily actually so that's one to think about. I love learning new things like this from folks like you in comment section.
Thanks for that.
@TheBeardedBushranger you need a roof cap on your chimney to stop the rain. It may also be a half angled sheet part way up the chimney. From where were you cooking and up at an angle up in the middle. Like how chimneys were made in the old days. It is to warm up the chimneys to draw up the smoke. Also, sometimes, the chimneys had a design to smoke meat.
@@RustyCandyAdventures Cool mate thanks for that. That is a good idea, I'll look more into how they did that and might add it to the chimney. Obviously I've seen the chimneys that narrow up towards the end, but that makes sense for these more open rectangle shaped ones.
I feel proud to be an aussie living in the country. Even with the billion flies, the high 40'c weather, the dust, lizards, spiders and snakes. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Its the best country in the world with the best people. I can only imagine the conditions the Pioneers used to live in. I couldn't deal with no fly spray or air conditioner and an outside dunny... Aussie Aussie Aussie.
Yeah it would of been something else back in the day in those brutal summers. Also, don't know what it is, but here in Vicco in the last week the flys have exploded. Can't go outside without a hundred of them crawling up your nose.
@@TheBeardedBushranger Far North SA here, I agree, for some reason the flies are vicious this year.
When I was a kid in the 60's myself and my mates found an immaculate bush hut near Toowoomba. Built at the base of a small cliff as there was a spring there. No door but built like the old public toilet shape. All built with corro iron ("borrowed" I bet) and baling wire. No nails. Even the bed was woven baling wire and so comfortable with all wire ends twisted away. Great fireplace, yes in iron. The earth floor was nearly polished and packed hard. No rubbish. We guessed it was a swaggy's place when he trudged through the area. I'm sure the area now would be a housing estate..... Edit to say that horse shoe needs to be hung upside down for the good luck to fall into. Never seen an old place with the shoe pointing down.
That is a great story. Imagine what that little shack could share if it could talk. I've found a few humpys in the bush as well over the years ... nothing official that I could find history on, so surely a hideout for tramp / hobo I'm sure.
They are still around here and there.
Bloody good job on the hut mate, especially the straight cuts with them tin snips, speaking from past experience i know that's not easy 😂🍻👌
Mate, my hand was aching after doing all those cuts haha. But I've been told you can do one cut and simply tear the sheets in a straight line (though I've never tried it myself)
@@TheBeardedBushranger I bet it was,yeah I bet that would take skill to lol
nice luke. also don't forget about the irreversible cost to the land plants and animals . unfortunately so much was lost and still is being lost due to ignorance and greed . I like how your vids give us food for thought and take us on a nice little trip into the past . all the best mate see ya on ya next vid
Yeah for sure. As the old accounts talk about, the bush looked like a very different place to what we would see now. I always get dissapointed seeing all the blackberries along rivers in the high country. And coming back from the ovens river just last week, some spots were overgrown with scotch thistle.
@@TheBeardedBushranger yes weeds are a very big and easy to see problem . I was more relating towards the over logging, grazing , farming and mining of the country. Accountable for the loss of countless species of plants and animals soil erosion and pollution and unfortunately its still going on due to greed and ignorance . they are still logging old growth forest, the most rarest and sensitive places in australia to cause extinction . . you probably know all this ofc . sorry about the rant . Much we have learnt from the past , much we have learnt we ignore due to short term greed . the pioneers and squatters survived and were hearty people . they had no choice but they also took way more than they contributed in my opinion and continue to do so . logging and mining especially
@BushKayakersCampingAustralia i understand your frustration and concern on many of the environmental issues. Though I don't think I agree with the statement 'they took far more then they contributed' .. because how do you even measure that? All the tiny details that make up a society today and trace thier roots to the different ways the country was built up. I mean now we are going into philosophical grounds of should us humans even be here, or would it be better to have no society in Australia at all. I'm of the opinion, with all its flaws and problems that need fixing, what has been created is significant. But that's a whole nother discussion 😆
@@TheBeardedBushranger fair enough it cant be measured although it was pretty much unbridled greed that was the driving force as to how the land was exploited without concern for the people plants and animals that were already here . We could have gotten to where we are today without destroying and selfishly exploiting so much . so much was lost . we didnt need to loose so much overgrazing caused so much damage so much loss . They would just move the cattle or sheep on in a trail for destruction and erosion . mining i the creeks and rivers . using arsenic to separate gold pour it down the rivers . leaving another trail od unconscionable trail of destruction . and for what ? . for greed . They have a lot to answer for and a few things to be proud of is my opinion . it cant be measured but you can see it everywhere the good and the bad
Top videeo, mate
Thanks mate, I'm actually pretty keen to start dabbling in some gold panning myself. I've been researching into and where to go. I'll watch some of your vids!
Wondering how much heat would be lost straight up the crude chimney. I once had a large open fire in an old house i owned. Big fire little heat as most went straight up. Then an old farmer said to put any thick metal plates at the back of the fire place. He suggested old plow discs. When they got hot they radiated the heat outward.
Nice to see Fellow Kiwis Hooking you up bro. Awesome! 🌏🌏🌏🥝🥝🥝🌿🌿🌿😝👊🍺🍻🍺
My Pop and Grandma lived in one of these tin huts when they first emigrated to Australia from England in 1926, as soldier settlers.
They had an upper middle class life in the Old Country and were told that they would have a fully set up dairy farm. What they got was 200 acres of Jarrah forest, a tin hut and a water tank with no water in it!
Some of their fellow settlers killed themselves, Pop turned to the grog to drown his sorrows. They had seven children and Grandma somehow kept them all alive, with no money (Pop always drank his pay packets). He died of cirrhosis of the liver, Grandma got dementia after this and died a few years later. She died when I was five years old and this would have been in about 1979.
So that's some tin hut history, from my own family.
BTW, Pop and Grandma now have hundreds of descendants and when they all have a family get-together, they need to hire the local RSL Hall!
Yeah, I mean there is no sugar coating it. It was a hard rough life. Sometimes the bush life can be romanticised, but the realities can often be harsh.
But as you said, they have hundreds of descendants! Really interesting stuff.
Thanks for watching.
Im guessing the corrugated tin merchants probably made more of a fortune than the gold diggers. Sure & steady wins the day! Good show Luke. Don't let the old shack go to waste ... 🐔 chickens!!🥚🍗 😉
I wouldn't be surprised at that. I've read elsewhere that men who built up different trades and services to serve the gold digging towns often made more money then those looking for gold.
Roof overlap sides by a reasonable margin seem optimal. Perhaps a little bend by hammer toward ground.
Yeah great vid,luv yr work...😊
Cheers mate.